The trouble with articles like this is they never mention phrase structure trees. They talk as if there is only one way to make a geometric diagram of a sentence. It might be an enlightening exercise to have students invent new ways to show the relationships between the words in a sentence. Having them use Reed-Kellog or phrase structure diagrams and then grading them on right or wrong is discouraging for the students.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:26 PM, Geoffrey Layton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

NCTE just posted this link on its Facebook page - watcha'll think?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/08/22/341898975/a-picture-of-language-the-fading-art-of-diagramming-sentences

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